Ethics: Why watch boxing?

in what nations are all drugs legal? Certainly not the US.

 

Oh, crap. I might be in some trouble then.

 

This reminds me of Jean Tripplehorn telling Michael Douglas "No." in Basic Instinct. It really complicates things. Because I still just wanna do what I wanna do in the moment.

 

The first fight between Corrales and Castillo and Rocky 1. I remember sitting down and watching Rocky for the first time and listening to the music, the training, the story, everything about it. It made me want to go to the boxing gym, I went, and I learned about the sport, the discipline, the craft. My appreciation for it put it on a pedestal above any other sport from an early age.

Corrales vs Castillo 1 was when I became completely engrossed by it all. My Uncle had a book about Muhammad Ali. I read it cover to cover about 5 times. I couldn't believe that a sportsman existed who was this remarkable. A man who risked his life every time he stepped in the ring but stood on his principles and defied an entire war machine, sacrificing 3 years of his prime, came back and took out the "unbeatable" George Foreman when nobody gave him a chance in hell. Once I started reading about the history of it, especially through the prism of a gargantuan presence like Ali it honed in on so many elements that simply do not exist in other sports.

Yes, it can be barbaric, and people like Ali played the ultimate price, but there's something about boxing as a sport that reaches much deeper into my soul than any other sport does. Ethics doesn't come into it for me when it's 2 professionals who sign up and know what they are signing up for.

It may not be as popular as it once was, it may never get to that stage again, we will likely never see anybody like Ali exist again in any sport, but for me the fact boxing produced someone like Ali who people will still be talking about in 200 years bypasses a lot of the barbarism that can occur.

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This whole passage from 3:04 to around 3:25 is unbelievable. You can see the whole stadium shake at 3:09 as Ali steadies himself and meets the unstoppable force head-on, beating him at his own game and standing in the pocket, slipping and sliding, taking the fight by the throat and fighting George's fight.

Drew Bundini-Brown, in the background, is watching intently. He didn't think Ali stood a chance; he couldn't believe what he was watching. After the KO, he is in tears, knowing he has just witnessed a monumental sporting moment. Even he can't believe it. We all die, but few of us live, and boxers, especially Gladiators and giants who go down in the history of boxing are the most impressive of all, that's my monologue anyway.

"What we do in life echoes in eternity"

 

Pure tribalism.